Not a great sign for theaters overall when the most well known ‘premium experience’ theater chain has a hard time cutting it
As part of the bankruptcy, Alamo Drafthouse will close down a few underperforming locations and restructure its lease obligations. The company is requesting that the Bankruptcy Court approve a 75-day timeline for the transaction process and the $20 million debtor-in-possession credit facility led by Altamont and Fortress. The coronavirus pandemic has decimated the exhibition business, with major studios postponing blockbusters and theaters remaining shuttered for months. However, there are signs it is rebounding. Cinemas can open in New York City starting on March 5 and exhibitors expect that Los Angeles will soon welcome back moviegoers, potentially setting the stage for a revival this summer as vaccinations increase.
In Ontario, Doug Ford dropped vaccination planning onto the regional (county) health services.
Apparently York Region opened up web signup for appointments for 80+ years on Monday at 8am, and in less than an hour, with some crashing, it’s fully booked. (Scalperbots?) I’ve been checking, and no signs of when it’ll clear.
entice some Republican support which will never happen. (See Obamacare negotiations.) or
to try to secure Joe Manchin’s support, which will be a recurring theme for the rest of the session.
I don’t care, I don’t need the check, my only worry is the delay income verification will introduce. I am certain there are plenty of folks in the $150-200k+ income range who are struggling, but I worry much more about the lower income brackets.
Of course, this also gives the Repubs talking points for 2022. “They didn’t care about you, they only care about the undeserving welfare queens!” or some such.
I’m with you. I don’t need the check, if I did get one, I’d distribute it in the community food banks and the like, but:
And, the added cost of these stupid administrative burdens basically cancels out any perceived savings. And those gov’t workers having to take on the burden aren’t suddenly getting extra staff, so they’re having to prioritize this over other necessary work. It’s just a bunch of posturing.
I use a non-chain pharmacy and they reached out to me yesterday to schedule my first dose (next week!). I was worried that I didn’t qualify as someone who is between 55-60, but they said they get to offer it to any of their customers. This is the first significant hopeful sign I’ve seen in CA.
I know that small pharmacies are not as popular as the big chain drugstores and Costco, but I love mine. They know me as soon as I walk in the door and are incredibly helpful. Also, when we temporarily lost our insurance in 2004, the owner sold me my Rx at cost. I will forever be grateful to my pharmacist.
The level of disorganization here is just criminal. From strictly online scheduling, which makes it really hard for a lot of seniors, to miscommunication from different levels. My MIL just got her first dose. It took my wife over an hour on their website to get through it all. While there, she filled out a questionnaire for herself. She is only 50 and healthy, but owns a bakery and is face-to-face most days. They processed her answers, approved her and sent her a link for an appointment. When she went, she got grilled at every checkpoint because she “wasn’t old enough to be here.” Presenting her keycode, she was accused of “getting that from someone who actually qualified. Who gave you that?” Presented the email. “We can’t know that is you.” Presented ID. “OK, look, just don’t tell anyone you got this, we won’t make a fuss.” She left feeling like she did some thing wrong. She is a compulsive rule follower, and this really upset her. It all comes down to, yes, here it is, “What we have hee-yah, is a fail-yah to communicate!”
How many folks would have given up? I suspect lots.
I understand the rush to get as many people vaccinated as possible with limited stocks, but there should have been some carve out for Medicaid offices to try to reach out to people on their rolls so that poor (and disproportionally minority) seniors wouldn’t be completely left out.
All the seniors in our family are relatively computer savvy (and of course solidly middle class), and still were frustrated, but we’re rolling through. My father had now has his second shot, my mother her first, and my mother in law gets her first tomorrow.
My wife is technically eligible as an “educator”, but has much less claim than yours (all her educating happens over Zoom, in fact it’s worked out better for her group than live lectures). She’s watching how stocks look for the country while trying to decide if she should go for it.
Yeah, I haven’t even looked online to try to find an appointment because I’m 57 and the mass vaccination sites are still 65 and older in CA. This phone call was a pleasant surprise. I know that when I got my flu shot in December, my pharmacy was doing the paperwork to apply as a Covid-19 vaccine distributor. They thought that they didn’t have a chance compared to the Walgreens and CVS stores.
Oh, and they had a cookie trap on the site so that you couldn’t just wget the page. (If you requested the page, it looks for a cookie, and if you don’t have it, it gives you some javascript that sets the cookie and reloads the page.) Simple to forge the cookie in code.
